Manuscript Review: What's Exactly? Cognizant Yourself with How Why and When + Pros and Cons of Reviewing !
Abstract : Peer review involves assessment of the importance of the research question, the originality of the work, its strengths and weaknesses, data analysis and interpretation, and the presentation of the information. The work should be evaluated comprehensively in terms of its content, methodology, and ethics. Peer review is an integral part of the publication process for all academics in the molecular life sciences and beyond. You may groan about being invited to review as academic life is so busy – there are grant proposals to write, students to supervise, conferences to attend, not to mention one's own manuscripts to write – but the inescapable truth is that reviewing your colleagues' work is a necessary part of the job description. Although nobody gets paid to do it, high-quality peer review pays dividends by promoting data validity and reproducibility and ensuring a better standard of published research all round. From the individual researcher's perspe